Building owner offered grocery smaller space

6:38 AM,
Oct. 25, 2013

Officials confirmed Wednesday that the Main Street Martket on east McGalliard will close soon.

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A day after Marsh Supermarkets acknowledged it was closing its East McGalliard Road MainStreet Market because it lost its lease, the new owner of the building said his Planet Fitness franchise could have shared the space and the Marsh-owned grocery could have stayed in its storefront.

But a Marsh spokesman told The Star Press the Planet Fitness gym would have taken up enough of the current Marsh MainStreet Market space that the grocery store would have had to shrink and become less useful to customers.

The Star Press reported online Wednesday and in Thursday's newspaper that Marsh is closing ...